Ping Pong the Animation

Despite having drastically different personalities, high school boys Peco and Smile have been friends since childhood. Now, they’re both talented members of table tennis club of Katase High School. Peco gets decisively defeated by a Chinese student and thus becomes so devastated that he quits practicing. Meanwhile, Smile’s personality always prevents him from winning against Peco.Ping Pong the Animation Season 1 Download

Coach Jō, however, discovers Smile’s potential and tries to motivate him to overcome his psychological obstacle.Ping Pong (Japanese: ピンポン, Hepburn: Pin Pon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto about table tennis. It was serialized in Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1996 to 1997 and collected in   five ankōbon volumes.It was adapted into a 2002 live-action film. An anime television series adaptation produced by Tatsunoko Production and directed by Masaaki Yuasa was aired on Fuji TV’s noitamina block between April and June 2014.In North America, Funimation streamed and licensed the series in 2014. Viz Media released the manga in 2020.The episodes in The Ping Pong Club are actually split into 12-14 minute segments, combined to form a typical 25 minute single episode. Seeing that there are 26 full episodes, when in fact all are split to a total of 52 episodes released on 5 DVDs.^[3]When localizing the Anime for release in North America, Software Sculptors neglected to follow the 52-Episode numbering, deciding instead not to count the five two-part episodes as two separate episodes. Their official episode count on the DVDs is instead 47. Also, volumes in the series have had name changes when re-released, with Discs 4 and 5 in the series being renamed from “Ping Pong Club – Goes for Broke” and “Ping Pong Club – Assorted Shorts” to ” Ping Pong Club – Goes Too Far” and “Ping Pong Club – Rots in Hell”.